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Setup a publi wireless access point

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Name: mikeliketrike
Date: March 19, 2009 at 09:00:17 Pacific
OS: Windows Server 2003
CPU/Ram: Intel 3GB
Product: Dell SERVER
Subcategory: Wireless
Comment:

The company I work for wants to allow visitors wireless internet access, but block them from our internal network.

Right now we have a Server 2003 box running our DHCP and DNS for every pc (xp) in the building, everyone has a 192.168.0.x address. We have 2 remote offices with VPNs setup that have 192.168.1.x and 192.168.2.x.

Am I correct in assuming I can block access to our network by just allowing the *new* wireless router to assign the DNS and give an IP range of something like 192.168.100.x ? It seems pretty straight forward to me, but in my experience nothing is as easy as it initially seems.




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Name: wanderer
Date: March 19, 2009 at 10:19:28 Pacific
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You would be advised to bring in a new internet link and provide access via it so no visitor can touch your network.

Otherwise you need to do vlans in addtition to ip addressing.


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